Trigger a Counter based Maintenance Plan based on Usage Count

[JosephFlesche]

I have an end user that would like to setup a Maintenance Plan to be triggered once a specific equipment is used 6 times.

I setup a Measurement Point as a Counter with a Unit of Measure of each. (I was testing different Annal Estimtate values.)

And assigned it to a Maintenance Plan like this.

I then entered 6 counters (counting up by 1 each time) until I got to 6. Running Deadline Monitoring on each entry of a usage counter did not trigger a Work Order.

Any suggestions on how I can get the Maintenance Plan to create a Work Order based on a usage of multiples of 6 times?

Here is a screenshot of the Measurement Documents entered.

And IP10 after running Deadline Monitoring.

[matjazmoser]

Greetings.

@JosephFlesche Yes SAP will try to predict this. My advice would be to enter a very high number which will not be reached. Since you are planning to regularly inter measurement documents SAP will ignore annual estimate.

Annual estimate is used to translate "quantity-to-time" and if you regularly enter measurement document this is not required or it is adapted -this is why if you put a high number as annual estimate SAP will will never schedule it just based on that.

Best regards, Matjaž.

[JosephFlesche]

I do not want SAP to predict this. I want SAP to Call a Work Order once 6 times has been achieved. Not in advance of the usage. I was able to solve this and test it. I added a solution. The key appears to be the 1 day Scheduling Period so that SAP does not look into the future.

[JosephFlesche · Accepted solution]

Based on feedback from this thread and continuing to search and test for a solution, I finally figured it out. Here's how you have to setup the data.

Setup the Measurement Point like this.

Then setup the Maintenance Plan like this.

The key appears to be the very short Scheduling Period so that SAP does not look too far in advance and generate Work Orders way ahead of when the equipment was actually used. Also keeping the Annual Estimate very low helps with not assuming too much usage in a year so that SAP does not over predict the usage and Call a Work Order too early.

This post was also very helpful.

[RAHEEL_BABAR]

Hi,

Have you updated the measuring document via IK11?

Further, have you entered start cycle in maintenance plan?

Regards

[JosephFlesche]

Yes, I have added (many) Measurement Documents for the Measurement Point linked to the Maintenance Plan using IK11.

When using a Maintenance Plan with a Measurement Point (Counter) assigned, you cannot enter a Start of Cycle. The "driver" for the Maintenance Plan is the Measurement Point (Counter).

[matjazmoser]

Greetings, can you share as screenshot of IP10 transaction for your maintenance plan? According to what you have written the call object should be created when the measurement document was entered for 6 "times" and IP30 was ran afterwards.

[JosephFlesche]

It appears that you must enter an Annual Estimate on the Measurement Point to allow for the usage of the Measurement Point on a Maintenance Plan. My concern with this is that the end users do not know AND from a bit of experience with Measurement Points used on Maintenance Plans, SAP will try to "predict" in the future when the Maintenance Plan is due. We do not want that, we simply want SAP to generate a Work Order from a Maintenance Plan when the equipment has been used exactly 6 times. These 6 times could come in any time frame (1 month, 6 months, 1 year, possibly never).

[JosephFlesche]

Thank you all. I was able to solve this and test it. I added a solution.